Mouth-mask.



F. D. SPOTSWOGD.

MOUTH MASK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.23, 1911.

Patented May 7,1918.

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Patented May '7, 1918.

Application filed August, 1917. mm in. 187,828.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK D. Srorswoon, a citizen of the United States,res1dmg at Lexington, in the county of Fayette and State of Kentucky,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mouth- Masks, ofwhich the following 1s a specification. v

This invention relates to an improved mouth mask, especially designedfor use by children and has as,1ts primary ob ect t0 provide a device ofthis character which will be provided with the representation of thehuman mouth or other mask feature and which may be fitted, by a child,over the mouth to be held in position the teeth for masking the mouth ofthe chi d.

And the invention has as a further ob ect to provide a mask of the abovenature which.

will be equipped with a supporting tab or flap which may be lightly heldbetween the teeth to support the mask in position over the mouth of thechild so that It wlll be unnecessary for the child to employ the handsfor supportin the mask'while, at the same 5 may talk or distort its facewhile the mask is in place.

Other and incidental objects will appear as the description proceeds andinthe drawings wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment ofthe invention and wherein similar reference characters designatecorresponding parts throughout the several device particularly showingthe mounting of a supporting tab for the mask.

In carrying out the invention, my improved mask is formed with areferably elliptical body 10. However, the ody may be of any otherapproved shape and is constructed of cardboard or any other suitablematerial. Upon its front side the bod 10 is, as particularly shown inFig. 1 o the drawings, provided with the representation of a human mouthor other mask feature. In this connection it will, of course, be obviousthat thebody 10 could be provided with the representation of the mouthof an animal or other animal feature. Formed in the upper edge of thebody, midway the representation of the mouth thereon, is acurved notch11. Below this notch, the rear side of.

the body is equipped with a supporting tab 12. T1118 supporting tab mayalso be formed of cardboard or any other approved material and, at oneextremity, is pasted or otherwise secured to the body. The oppositeextremity of the tab is, as particularly shown in Fig. 3, scoredtransversel so that the free end of the tab may be rea ily bent toextend rearwardly from the body.

In use, the body 10 of the mask is placed over the mouth of the childemploying the device with the childs nose received within the notch 11of the body. At the same time, the free extremity of the tab 12 is bentto project rearwardly from thc body and is inserted between the teeth.The tab may thus be lightly held between the teeth tosup ort the mask inposition over the mouth. onsequentl it will be unnecessary to employ theban s for maintaining the mask in place while, at the same time, thechild may talk or distort the face at pleasure.

It will therefore be seen that I provide an exceedingly simple deviceand one which will prove especially attractive to children. However, Ido not wish to be limited in this regard since it will be obvious thatthe device is also adapted for use by older people.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. -A mask including a body provided with a mask feature and adapted tobe fitted by the user over a feature 0 the face for masking such featureof theface, and means carried by the body to normally lie thereagainstand movable to project laterally from the body to be received betweenthe teeth of the user to support the body of the mask in posiinE suchfeature of the face, and a flexible ta carried by the body and adaptedto be .to be fitted by swung lateral! therefrom to be received bein saidnotch tween the teet of the user to support the tremity to the body belobody of the mask in posltion. adapted to be inserted at 3. A maskincludm a body having a tremit between the teeth of the user to sup- 5notchformed in one e ge thereof and roport t e body of the mask inposition.

vided with a mask feature, the body 0 the In testimony whereof I afiixmy signature. mask being adapted to be fitted, by the user,

over the mouth with the nose received with- FRANK D. SPOTSWOOD, [1,, 5,]

